Global Resource Sharing
Woodhead Publishing Ltd, November 2011, Pages: 230
Written from a global perspective, this new book reviews sharing of library resources on a global scale. With expanded discovery tools and massive digitization projects, the rich and extensive holdings of the world’s libraries are more visible now than at any time in the past. Advanced communication and transmission technologies, along with improved international standards, present a means for the sharing of library resources around the globe. Despite these significant improvements, a number of challenges remain. Global Resource Sharing provides librarians and library managers with a comprehensive background in and summary of the issues involved in global resource sharing.
Readership: Practicing librarians, library managers and library staff, as well students of LIS at the undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Key features:
- analyses current and future environments for international resource sharing, including past research and discussions
- provides an international perspective on a global library issue
- includes examples of successful and innovative global resource sharing initiatives
- uses a unique methodology (SWOT or PEST analysis) to discuss the issue
- presents a summary of useful additional resources for relevant issues around the practice of global resource sharing
An introduction to global resource sharing
- Overview
- Intent and design of the book
- References
A brief history of international interlibrary lending and document supply
- Introduction
- ‘We should develop some system’
- Underlying principles and reasonable rules
- Document delivery – Part I
- Discover, locate, request, deliver
- Document delivery – Part II
- The last mile
- Highlights
- References
PEST and SWOT analysis of international interlibrary loan
- Introduction
- PEST analysis of international interlibrary loan
- SWOT analysis of international interlibrary loan
- Summary
- Bibliography and further reading
An overview of current practices
- Introduction
- The requesting process
- Locating a lender
- National, international and local catalogs
- The shipping process
- Fees and payments
- Statistics
- Issues and challenges
- Summary
- Useful resources
- References
Case studies in global resource sharing
- Introduction
- Participation in global resource sharing – survey responses
- References
Selected case studies
- Introduction
- Argentina
- Australia
- Canada
- China
- Egypt
- Former Soviet Union
- Israel
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Netherlands
- New Caledonia
- Singapore
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
- United States
The future of global resource sharing
- Introduction
- Trends
- Scenarios
- Summary
- References
Appendix: Case Studies Survey
- Questions about borrowing
- Questions about lending
- Questions about borrowing and lending
- General questions
Linda Frederiksen is the Head of Access Services at Washington State University Vancouver. Linda received her Bachelor of Arts in History and French from Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. Before receiving her Master of Library Science degree from Emporia State University in Kansas, Linda worked in both public and academic libraries. She is active in local, regional and national interlibrary loan, document delivery and resource sharing projects.
Margaret Bean is Resource Sharing Librarian at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. Prior to her work at the University of Oregon, Margaret was an engineering librarian at Stanford University and at the University of Michigan. She also worked as an engineering librarian for two Detroit, Michigan, automotive suppliers. Margaret received her Master of Library and Information Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature from Scripps College in Claremont, California. Her interlibrary loan-related interests include education and training, collaboration with non-ILL departments, and purchase-on-demand.
Heidi Nance is the Head of Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services at the University of Washington Libraries in Seattle, Washington. Prior to her work at the University of Washington, Heidi supervised the Interlibrary Loan office at Seattle Pacific University, and interned in the Image/Photo Library at Callison Architecture. Heidi received her Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Washington in 2007 and her Bachelor of Arts in English from Seattle Pacific University in 2001. Her interests include consortia borrowing and collection development, increasing library access for distance students, and e-content.
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